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The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza) have issued a joint statement criticizing the position of Israel’s Attorney General, Avichai Mandelblit, to the petition submitted to the Israeli Supreme Court against the Settlement Regularization Law. The…

The administration of US President Donald Trump is planning to table a proposal to recognize a Palestinian state, without requiring the demolition of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories. Saturday night, November 18, Channel 12 News reported that Trump would propose that the Palestinian Authority declare “full independence” alongside Israel, complete with US recognition…

The Jewish National Fund (JNF), known in Hebrew as Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, is extremely wealthy. It owns 13% of all the land in Israel and brings in some $3 billion a year, most of it from land sales. The Israeli government traditionally feels entitled to the JNF’s money, which according to its mission statement is…

A new report by Emek Shaveh ‒ an Israeli NGO working to defend cultural heritage rights and to protect ancient sites as public assets that belong to members of all communities, faiths and peoples ‒ reveals that almost all archeological salvage excavations initiated by the Civil Administration in the West Bank during the years 2007‒2014…

A Palestinian family was evicted from its home of 53 years in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah early Tuesday morning, September 5, culminating a protracted legal battle in which Israeli authorities contended that the property belongs to Jewish settlers. The expulsion of the Shamasna family marked the first time since 2009 that…

The Shamasne family, which resides in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, recently received an eviction order from the Execution Office of Israel’s Enforcement and Collection Authority. The order states that the family must evict its home by August 9, 2017, or else it will be forcibly removed by authorities. This order follows a Supreme Court verdict from August…

On the backdrop of Attorney General Mandelblit’s declared refusal to defend before the Supreme Court the “Regularization Law” enacted by the Knesset over six months ago, the government has retained the service of a private attorney, himself a settler, to do so. The Regularization Law allows the Israeli government to retroactively sanction the construction of…

Lawmakers of the Joint List bloc held a special discussion in the Knesset Monday, July 3, on the recent wave of legislation characterized by the ultimate aim of annexing the Jewish settlements and most of the territory in the occupied West Bank and placing them under Israeli law. The Joint List legislators said they would…

Far-right Minister of Education Naftali Bennett (HaBayit HaYehudi –The Jewish Home) is advancing a general master plan to double the size of Ariel University in the settlement of that name in the occupied West Bank. The NIS 135 million plan includes opening a faculty of medicine. According to an Education Ministry statement, Bennett, who also…